Friday, May 22, 2009

Emmalee has attended New Beginnings Preschool in Richmond for the past two years. It has been a wonderful experience for all of us, and we were all sad to see her time there come to an end. She graduated on Tuesday, May 19. Graduation was held at the First Baptist Church in Richmond. She was dressed in full graduation attire-cap, gown, and 2009 tassel. We tried it on at home earlier, and here is how she looked. I will admit, I shed more than a few tears!

The excited graduate-to-be

Posing with little sister, who is already enrolled for preschool for the 2010-2011 school year-crazy, I know!-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I have tons of pictures, but for some reason I cannot upload them from my new camera. However, I was able to use them in a Smilebox, which I do from time to time. Here are the pics from the big night!

Emmalee's dance recital was held on Monday, May 18. She had a great time again this year. The theme was "On Broadway." Emmalee danced to "In the Jungle" from The Lion King and "You Can't Stop the Beat" from Hairspray. It was a fantastic show, and Emmalee did a wonderful job.

I have the best kids and most thoughtful husband! I worked the day before Mother's Day, and Duane kept the girls. While I was gone, they created huge cards and picked out stuffies (a.k.a. stuffed animals) and balloons for me. This was all waiting for me when I got home from work, along with a clean house! What a surprise!

Their beautiful creations!-----------------------------------------------------------------Mother's Day itself was hectic, but here are the best pictures we could get.

This is how cooperative my two-year-old can be!!

And another fabulous shot (ha, ha!)

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All in all, Mother's day was nice and the girls, along with Daddy, made me feel really special!

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Spring has finally arrived, and we have spent lots of time playing outside lately. It has been wonderful, and I think it has also helped with getting both girls (namely Tori) to sleep through the night.

Last weekend we went to Dylan and Cobi's birthday parties on Saturday. Everyone had a great time. Here are some pics to prove it.

Here is Uncle Brian helping Tori and Cobi out on the trampoline.

The kiddos with Brian waiting for the horses to come so they could feed them carrots.

Uncle Brian helping Emmalee get the carrot to the horse-she gets a little nervous.

Things are about to get pretty crazy around our house. I am entering my last 8 days of school, and Emmalee has her dance recital and preschool graduation during my last 3 days. We are all excited for a little time off before I head back to teach summer school, and Emmalee enters the Chillicothe School District as a student in summer school!

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Tori has always been just a bit more clumsy than Emmalee. She has always fallen more, scraped her knees more, bumped her head more, busted her lip more... We are pretty accustomed to hearing a thud and a cry from Tori and then needing to get the ice pack. Last night was no exception. The girls were playing and Tori ran through our bedroom. She fell head first into the curio cabinet, and she ended up being worse for the wear. She has a big bruise/scrape combination down the side of her face. She is a trooper though and hasn't fussed too much about it. In fact, it hasn't slowed her down at all. Justthis morning she was trying to stand on a laundry basket near the television and that ended badly as well. This bump, though, is under her hair, so I have no pictures to show her later. I am surprised she doesn't have a pounding head at this point!

This week was "bring a friend to dance" week, so Emmalee chose to take Tori as her friend. This was going to help us see how ready she was for summer dance. Tori was very excited about going to dance with Mimi, but once she got back inside the studio, she quickly changed her mind. She told Miss Tracey, "I no like it, I no like it." That was the end of that. Emmalee was crushed and cried too, but everyone calmed down and Emmalee returned to dance lessons. Tori even ventured in for a brief moment. I think her real problem was that she only wanted to jump on the trampoline, like she did at Emmalee's birthday party. However, you can't do whatever you want to do at dance, you have to listen to Miss Tracey and Jorge. Tracey thinks she will be fine this summer; she thinks Tori got overwhelmed by too many big kids making a fuss over her. She is signed up for summer lessons and Fairy Tale Ballet Camp, so I guess we will see!

About Me

As the mother of the most amazing little girls I know, I started this blog as a way to document stories about the girls over the years. Emmalee loves to have us tell her stories, so I am hoping when she is older and has children who say to her, "Mommy, tell me a story," she, as well as her little sister, will be able to look to this blog for memories. It is also a way to keep family and friends across the miles updated on the lives of the girls through stories and pictures.